The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History

Upcoming Events

• Jazz/Blues and Salsa Under the Stars
  June - August in the Museum Amphitheater
  
  
  

  32nd Annual Summer Music Festival with The New Mexico Jazz Workshop presents Jazz & Blues and Salsa Under the Stars in the Museum Amphitheater. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert runs from 7 - 10 p.m. All shows occur rain or shine. The Cooperage Restaurant provides food and full bar service.
  
  Admission (except as otherwise noted): $12 adults, $10 seniors (65+) and students with ID, $9 New Mexico Jazz Workshop and Albuquerque Museum Foundation members. Children under 12 are free. Tickets and information, call 255-9798.

  
  

  SALSA UNDER THE STARS
  
  Friday, August 15, Ivon Ulibarri & Cafe Mocha
  
  Friday, August 22, Son Como Son
  
  

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• Sculpture Garden Tours
  
  Take a docent guided walk through the Sculpture Garden! Tours are at 10 a.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Click the link “Sculpture Garden” on the left sidebar for more information.
  
  
• Free General Admission Days at The Albuquerque Museum. 
  The first Wednesday of the month is a free general admission day.   General admission to the Museum is also free every Sunday morning from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.  Fees to special exhibitions apply.
  
  
  
  

• Family Art Workshops – 1 – 2:30 p.m.
  Join us every Saturday for creative fun.  All ages are welcome. Free with Museum admission.

Upcoming Exhibitions

• Biennial Southwest ’08
  September 28 – November 30, 2008
  
  
  A juried exhibition presenting a wide range of contemporary art currently being produced in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.
  
  
  
  
• Jamestown, Quebec and Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
  October 25, 2008 - March 29, 2009
  

• The dramatic, often violent, story of European settlement in the new world is told in three languages and through the eyes of the powerful, the dispossessed, and the enslaved.
  
  

  
  This exhibition has been jointly organized by the Virginia Historical Society and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, with support from Robins Foundation, Land America, Jamestown 2007, and Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Support for the exhibition at The Albuquerque Museum has also been provided by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, and the local exhibition is in cooperation with the New Mexico History Museum, Museum of New Mexico.
  
  
  Virginia Historical Society
  
  National Museum of American History
  
  
  

• Gary T. Erbe: 40 Years
  December 21, 2008 - February 15, 2009
  
  This exhibition showcases more than sixty trompe l'oeil paintings by this self-taught artist. Erbe is internationally recognized for his realistic style of painting and has exhibited throughout the United States. Trompe l'oeil (to fool the eye) is illusionist painting that goes back to Ancient Rome, 17-century Dutch painting, and 19th-century American painting by the likes of William Harnett and John Frederick Peto. This forty-year retrospective of Erbe's best work depicting pop culture of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s is organized by the Butler Institute of American Art.
  
                              The Night Before Christmas
  
  

• The Alvarado Hotel
  March 8 - June 7, 2009
  
  
  
  

  An entertaining presentation of the story of the Alvarado Hotel and the significant role it played in Albuquerque’s economic and social vitality. The exhibit features the museum’s comprehensive collection of architectural elements, room furnishings, and decorations that have been preserved and returned to Albuquerque since the hotel’s tragic demolition in 1970. It will also include photographs, films and interviews that tell the story of the hotel through the voices of its former employees and patrons.

  
  
  

  Alvarado Hotel menu featuring a painting inspired by
  The Harvey Girls with Judy Garland, c. 1946

   

• EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY
  June 28 - September 20, 2009

  Ilana Halperin, Boiling Milk (Solfataras), 2000    Courtesy of Independent Curators International

  
  A group exhibition of national and international artists that explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide. Curated by Nato Thompson and organized and circulated by Independent Curators International, the exhibition is based on the notions that geography benefits from the study of specific histories, sites, and memories, and that every estuary, landfill, and cul-de-sac has a story to tell. The artists engage the earth's topography in a range of experimental ways, including interactive computer kiosks, sound and video installations, photography, sculpture, and experimental cartography.
  
  
  
  
  Experimental Geography is part of a larger project of New Mexico arts organizations known as LAND/ART, which will explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book. Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live.